Clownfish - Weird episode

[Megan Talor Hockman]

Hey! I've actually posted about this before but it ended before I could get pictures and didn't occur again. I have a mated pair of clownfish and this is the second time where she almost gets manic, swimming around the tank and she is a flurry color and actually loses color in her face and her pupiles get super small. I got pictures this time.

This happened about two months ago, otherwise she is always fine, but today in her manic swimming she smashed into one of the rocks pretty hard. Could this be from bristol worms?

Thanks.

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1mlimQIJay8PEd51td-Pc2RRDhScKn05x

 

[ihavecrabs]

The pictures didn't pop up. Can you try reposting them? Probably easiest to upload them directly to R2R.

 

[Crabs McJones]

Correct, instead of trying to link them from google drive, click the little photo icon above the text box, and load the pictures directly to R2R :)

 

[Megan Talor Hockman]

Sorry it won't let me upload, just add link last time. Here you go!

 

[ihavecrabs]

Weird, I haven't seen this or heard of this before.

#reefsquad

 

[NY_Caveman]

In clowns the female face will go white sometimes. Especially if she has a harem. Just shows she is the boss I guess, as if her huge size was not enough.

EDIT: to be clear, it is normal.

 

[Megan Talor Hockman]

Weird, I haven't seen this or heard of this before.

#reefsquad

Yeah, I just am worried about her. She will eventually calm down but you can tell in the picture that her orange face is pale, which Ive never heard of before.

 

[ihavecrabs]

Yeah, I just am worried about her. She will eventually calm down but you can tell in the picture that her orange face is pale, which Ive never heard of before.

Changes in fish color is typically attributed to stress or nutrition. But I'm not sure this case is typical ;Wideyed

 

[redfishbluefish]

I don't believe fish have pupils. Wonder what's going on there? Does this happen just when the lights come on?

 

[Megan Talor Hockman]

In clowns the female face will go white sometimes. Especially if she has a harem. Just shows she is the boss I guess, as if her huge size was not enough.

EDIT: to be clear, it is normal.

So even if she is like manically swimming to where she is running into things?

 

[Megan Talor Hockman]

I don't believe fish have pupils. Wonder what's going on there? Does this happen just when the lights come on?

Nope she never has that, this is just the second time it's happened. Pupils is the best way I can explain it but her eyes will eventually go black again.

 

[Megan Talor Hockman]

Changes in fish color is typically attributed to stress or nutrition. But I'm not sure this case is typical ;Wideyed

That's why I'm wondering if she brushed a bristol worm or something

 

[redfishbluefish]

I'm really not a disease guy, but could it be flukes?

Lets have the disease folks take a look.... @4FordFamily , @HotRocks

 

[NY_Caveman]

No, if she is rubbing the rocks, that is not normal.

 

[HotRocks]

Is the clown targeting the gills when rubbing the rocks?

 

[Megan Talor Hockman]

I don't believe so, I wouldn't really say she's rubbing either, it's more like she is blind and just crazy swimming and hitting stuff almost on accident.

 

[Big G]

Bristleworms usually leave little hair like stingers or blemishes like small blackish dots from the insertion points of the stingers. Do you see any of these?

 

[rkpetersen]

Almost looks like flukes around the gills in the second pic of post 4. I know you typically can't see them, but my first thought was whether those spots of tannish coloration there is normal for this particular fish.

 

[Megan Talor Hockman]

Okay what is flukes and how do you treat it?

 

[HotRocks]

This link should be helpful

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/flukes-–-general-guidelines.224423/